Tag: religion
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Scales of the Real
When it comes to consciousness, its depth and the architecture of awareness, one of the most overlooked insights is that consciousness does not only manifest forms. It manifests scales of reality. Ordinarily, we imagine existence as composed of separate things interacting with one another. But Trika philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism suggests something far stranger: what…
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Consciousness and the Wisdom of Not Knowing
A Comparative Essay on Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen Two of the world’s most sophisticated non-dual philosophical traditions, Kashmir Shaivism and Tibetan Dzogchen, arrive at strikingly similar descriptions of ultimate reality while diverging sharply on one fundamental question: whether that reality can be described as a self. Kashmir Shaivism, emerging in ninth-century Kashmir through thinkers such…
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